Old Voices
Betty and I have been listening to a stack of oral interviews taped in 1968 concerning the siege of Khe Sanh. Cooks, truck drivers, Major Generals, Privates, ammo techs, armorers, artillery gunners,...
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In August, 1967 the war in Vietnam raged. In I Corps, Marines died all along the DMZ. But in Bravo Company…..rain. Floods gushing down the trenches. Rebuilding the bunkers on Hill 861. Digging drains...
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On War, Marines and BRAVO!
Guest blogger and BRAVO! supporter Cobb Hammond muses on the film and associated issues. I have now watched the movie/documentary Bravo at least for the 20th time! It is interesting to note that these...
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Lou Kern Muses on Green Ghosts, Hill 950 and the End of the Siege of Khe Sanh
I came down from the mountain a few weeks after the end of the Siege in June of 1968. I’d been up there for 11 straight weeks. Two of us radio operators from my company were stationed up on Hill 950...
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Requiem for Ex
One of the things about the war in Vietnam was the importance of body counts of enemy dead. Yet what body counts don’t tell you is the human side of those people who were killed. So much of what we...
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Old Voices
Betty and I have been listening to a stack of oral interviews taped in 1968 concerning the siege of Khe Sanh. Cooks, truck drivers, Major Generals, Privates, ammo techs, armorers, artillery gunners,...
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August in Nam
In August, 1967 the war in Vietnam raged. In I Corps, Marines died all along the DMZ. But in Bravo Company…..rain. Floods gushing down the trenches. Rebuilding the bunkers on Hill 861. Digging drains...
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On War, Marines and BRAVO!
Guest blogger and BRAVO! supporter Cobb Hammond muses on the film and associated issues. I have now watched the movie/documentary Bravo at least for the 20th time! It is interesting to note that these...
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Lou Kern Muses on Green Ghosts, Hill 950 and the End of the Siege of Khe Sanh
I came down from the mountain a few weeks after the end of the Siege in June of 1968. I’d been up there for 11 straight weeks. Two of us radio operators from my company were stationed up on Hill 950...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Requiem for Ex
One of the things about the war in Vietnam was the importance of body counts of enemy dead. Yet what body counts don’t tell you is the human side of those people who were killed. So much of what we...
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50 Years gone—3-14-1968
All through the 77-day Siege of Khe Sanh we learned how to live with less of everything except ammo and conflict. It was one of those exercises in finding out how little you could live with and how...
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Grief
52 years ago today, one of the most significant events in my memory of Khe Sanh’s siege occurred in what has now become known as the Ghost Patrol. When Marines and Corpsmen from Third Platoon of Bravo...
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Elation
After the Ghost Patrol of 25Feb1968, no larger units sortied outside Khe Sanh combat base for almost a month. We sent out some listening posts but those were small and they went out after dark and...
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Requiem
Steve Wiese was an American Hero. I think he would dispute that statement and would have said something like, “The real heroes are the dead, the ones who didn’t come home.” But he was a hero. Unlike...
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The Need to See Them Dead
Fifty-two years ago this morning on the battlefield of Khe Sanh, Vietnam, Bravo Company, 1/26 burst out of the confines of siege and siege mentality and went on the attack. The details of what is now...
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Remembering The Dead of World War One
Cobb Hammond, a supporter and good friend of BRAVO!, writes eloquently about World War One. As our nation approaches its annual remembrance of our fallen in battle, we turn to memorialize the men of...
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Remember the Mayaguez
Forty-four years ago this week the SS Mayaguez, a US merchant ship, was captured by the Khmer Rouge on the coast of Cambodia (Kampuchea.) President Gerald Ford decided that an emphatic response was...
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HAMBURGER HILL (MEMORIAL DAY 2019)
Guest blogger Cobb Hammond’s article on the savage battle fought in May, 1969, originally published in the MEMPHIS COMMERCIAL APPEAL on May 24, 2019. As Americans this weekend memorialize the...
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Vieil Ami
Guest Blogger and BRAVO! Marine Michael E. O’Hara muses on the passage of time, war, the film and comrades in this blog for Veterans Day, 2019. Fall 2019 Vieil Ami When I first arrived in a place that...
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The Beginning
Fifty-two years ago this morning, the Siege of Khe Sanh began with a bang when the NVA hit one of the base’s ammo dumps and the world seemed, for that morning at least, to erupt into a volcano of...
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